Dreams can lie, your Grace.

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.

Men live their lives trapped in an eternal present, between the mists of memory and the sea of shadow that is all we know of the days to come.

The strongest trees are rooted in the dark places of the earth. Darkness will be your cloak, your shield, your mother's milk. Darkness will make you strong.

She never forgets a slight, real or imagined. She takes caution for cowardice and dissent for defiance. And she is greedy. Greedy for power, for honour, for love.

Perhaps I cannot make my people good, she told herself, but I should at least try to make them a little less bad.

Men's lives have meaning, not their deaths.

Small men oft feel a need to prove their courage with unseemly boasts, " he declared. "I doubt if he could kill a duck."Tyrion shrugged. "Fetch the duck.

He'll be down with the books. My old septon used to say books are dead men talking. Dead men should keep quiet is what I say. No one wants to hear a dead man's yabber.

Gold has its uses, but war is won with iron.

Sleep is a little death, dreams the whisperings of the other who would drag us all into the eternal light

Darkness promotes speech.

Have Ithaka always in your mind. Your arrival there is what you are destined for. But don't in the least hurry the journey.

The easiest and most accessible emotion is rage.

Written kisses don't reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.

The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, what a mess I am, I thought, what a fool, how foolish and narrow, how worthless, how pinched and pathetic, how helpless.

War gives the right to the conquerors to impose any condition they please upon the vanquished.

The images are compositions of photos superimposed over painted backgrounds, then finished off with digital alterations.

We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween. Anything to be mean.

Before you judge me , try hard to love me , look within your heart Then ask , - have you seen my childhood ?

Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit